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      The Orient. Ixoia. The Last Arrivals Fro...

      pleted by the beginning of May . The Pacha has already deepened the Canal of Damanour , which feeds the Mahmoudieh canal at low Nile , and is making , or has ordered to be made , several good roads in the interior , connecting the principal towns . He has also ordered a lig hthouse to be erected at Suez , the lantern to be brought out from England .

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      4 , 18 THE LEADER . [ No , 319 , Satttrday ,

      Our Civilization. -—•—Suspected Bobbery ...

      OUR CIVILIZATION . - —•—SUSPECTED BOBBERY OF JEWELLERY . Thbee notorious thieves , named Thompson , Smith , and Brown , one of whom is a ticket-of-leave man , were charged at Worship-street with having in their possession a large amount of jewellery , supposed to have been stolen . Two police constables on duty in Thrall-street , Spitalfields , at twelve o ' clock at night , saw a woman keeping watch at the door of a house well known as a place of resort for thieves . No sooner did she see the policemen than she ran into the house and up the stairs , leaving the street door open , when one of the constables ¦ w ho followed heard her say , " Quick , quick ! the police are coming ! Put it away ! " The officers entered the premises and seized Thompson and Brown , who were attempting to make their escape . A . struggle ensued between the police and the thieves , in the course of which one of the latter threw a package on to a bed in the room ; this package was found , on examination , to contain a variety of watch-seals and keys , finger-rings , and numerous trinkets . While these were being inspected , Smith and Thompson leaped out of the windows on to an outhouse , and so escaped into the-street ; but they were immediately pursued and captured in another disreputable house , where they were found concealed under a bed . A police sergeant in court stated that he believed he could ascertain that the jewellery had been stolen ; and the magistrate therefore remanded the prisoners for a week .

      Muedeb Or Staffordshire.—At The Village ...

      Muedeb or Staffordshire . —At the village of Alstonefield , Staffordshire , an old woman named Ann Edge has been murdered by her niece , Betty Edge . The two women were living at the house of a farmer named Berrisford , who saw Betty Edge strike her aunt three times on the head with an axe . On being interrogated as to why she did so , she replied in a vacant manner that she had quarrelled with the murdered woman . The murderess is believed to be disordered in her intellect . An inquest has been held , and a verdict of Wilful Murder returned against Betty Edge , who was committed for trial at the next Assizes .

      An Ingenious JBobbert . —A ticket-of-leave man has been found guilty , at the Middlesex Sessions , of robbing a butcher ' s shop in St . John-street , Clerkenwell , early in the morning , after this clever fashion : —Mounted on a companion ' s shoulders , he thrust a stick with a hook at the end of it between the bars over the door , and drew the meat through . The butcher was roused one morning by the noise , gave chase in his night-shirt , and caught one of the offenders . The man was sentenced to four years ' penal servitude .

      A False Hero . —Henry Mitchell , alias James Leigh , is under remand at Westminster , charged with obtaining 11 . 10 s . from the Earl of Orkney , on pretence of being a discharged corporal in the . Sappers and Miners , just returned from the Crimea , and desirous to get back to his home in Gloucestershire . He was dressed in the proper uniform , had two stripes of merit on his arm , produced a regularly , drawn-up certificate of discharge , and showed a familiarity with his Lordship ' s sons who were in the army . But he afterwards proved to be an impostor .

      Robbing a Brother . —Patrick Clifford , an Irishman , has been found guilty at the Middlesex Sessions of stealing 110 L , the property of bis brother . It appeared that the money stolen was the result of the prosecutor ' hard earnings for eighteen years , and he had -withdrawn it from the savings bank but a short time before , and kept it under the mattrass of bis bed for safety . The prisoner was sentenced to twelve months ' hard labour . Pious Abstraction . —John Gardner Fuller , a sedatelooking , elderly man , described as a Dissenting minister

      at Dais ton , was charged at Worship-street with having stolen a psalm-book from West Hackney Church . It appeared to be deliberately taken ; but the accused , when pursued and stopped , said he laid hands on the book in a fit of abstraction , to which he is subject , owing to an affection of the head . Several hymn-books , however , had been missed from the Church , and Mr . Fuller had frequently been Been there . To the magistrate , the accused repeated the plea of inadvertence ; but ha was remanded , and set at liberty on bis own

      recog-Oinu at Sbkkbnbss . —So many burglaries have lately , been committed at Sheerness , and tho place is so evidently infested with a gang of ruffians , that a public meeting has . been held , to doviso means of protection . It was resolved that an application should bo made to the local board to engage an adequate number of constables ; and a subscription was entered into . Woman-Beatino bx an Attorney . —A Mr . Dorset Palmer Neole , on attorney , owed a Bum of money to Mr . Kennlaton , a tradesman in the Kennington-road . Tho bill having gone on a long time without payment , Mrs . Kenniston went to the attorneyV office , anfl , Boeing him

      smoking with two men in a back room , though his clerk said he was out , she entered and asked for the money . She was immediately knocked down ; her clothes were thrown over her face , and she was beaten till she became insensible . Mr . Neale was summoned to the Lambeth police court and the case was adjourned .

      State Of Trade. Manufactures.—The Accoun...

      STATE OF TRADE . Manufactures . —The accounts of the trade of the manufacturing towns during the week ending last Saturday give no signs of inconvenience being experienced from the continued pressure for money . At Manchester , the markets have been firm and healthy , at an advance corresponding with the rise in cotton . At Birmingham , the iron trade is steady , and , although the American orders are still below the general anticipation , confidence is felt as to the summer demand . The Nottingham advices state that both hosiery and lace are largely purchased at full prices . In the woollen districts the orders are equal to the supply , and in the Irish linen-markets there has been a further improvement . —Times . Some more banking disclosures , perfectly harmonious in their degree with those of Strahan , Paul , and Co ., the Aberdeen Bank , the Tipperary Joint-Stock Bank , the Westminster Improvement Commission , and the other cases of the kind by which the past ^ two years have been distinguished , have just been furnished during an examination in the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court of the surviving partner of the Lichfield Bank , which suspended at the commencement of the present year . The establishment was in the name of Messrs . Palmer and Greene , and It enjoyed the privilege of issuing notes to the amount of 22 , 786 ? . Mr . Palmer died in 1850 , and the bank had since been conducted by Mr . Greene . In his examination , Mr . Greene admitted that

      the firm had been carried on with a gradually mcreasmg deficit for about thirty years . His partner , Mr . Palmer , at his death , owed the concern 45 , 787 / ., and an estimate of its position at that time showed a deficiency of 62 , 5707 . Nevertheless , the business was kept up as usual , and would not have been disturbed at last but for the discretion of Massrs . Smith , Payne , and Smiths , who refused to make advances . From 1850 to the 8 lst of December , 1855 , Mr . Greene maintained his personal expenditure at the rate of 2650 / . a year—an attempted reduction having been discontinued lest it should excite suspicion , and thus put a stop to the power of

      expenditure altogether . Here was a deliberate system of living on property held in trust ; yet the law provides no penalty for it . In the same way the parties to the delinquencies of John Sadleir in the Tipperary Bank are likely to avoid all inconvenience . In the case of the Westminster Improvement Commission and the Aberdeen Bank the creditors are openly defied , and the same system prevails in a multitude of minor instances that daily occur . Under these circumstances , the conclusion must be , either that Sir John Paul was a martyr , or that the scope of the criminal law should be greatly extended . —Idemr

      The Board of Trade Returns for the month ending the 31 st of March were issued on Monday morning , but owing to the circumstance that the period of 1855 with which they are contrasted comprises only from the 6 th to the 31 st of March , they do not afford the ordinary means of comparison . Our exports are shown to have amounted to 9 , 448 , 570 / . against 7 , 311 , 305 / . during twenty-six days of March , 1855 ; and , if allowance be made for five days wanting , the latter total will be raised to 8 , 717 , 325 / . The actual increase on the corresponding month of last year may therefore be estimated at 731 , 245 / .

      Miscellaneous. The Court.—The Queen Held...

      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen held a Drawing-room ( the second this season ) on Tuesday afternoon in St . James's Palace . Tho Court was numerously attended , the presentations of ladies exceeding two hundred and fifty . The Vacant GARTER 8 . ^ TheQueen has signified her intention to bestow the vacant garters upon Lord Palmerston and Earl Fortoscuc . A Puseyite Row at Oxford . —Father Gavazzi has been delivering some lectures at Oxford , on his usual topics . On the first evening , in accordance with an organised plan , there was considerable interruption ; but the Father contrived to get through his discourse . On

      the following evening , when the more immediate subject of tho lecture waa Puseyism , tho opposition took the form of a vcritablo row . Shrieks , hisses , hootings , tho explosion of crackers , and tho stamping of feet , made a hubbub through which Gavazzi could scarcely be heard . At length , a proctor interposed to obtuin for him fair play , but in vain . Nevertheless , ho announced a third lecture for tho following evening . It was then found necessary to swear in special constables ; and , when the audience assembled , the rioters wero ejected . Tho lecture then proceeded in quiet . A fourth and concluding lecture was delivered on a subsequent day to a very enthusiastic audience . Tho townspeople arc warm partisans of tho Italian .

      Samuul Rogers' Collection . —Tho sale of the celebrated collection of worka of art , the property of tho late banker-poet , commenced on Monday ut Messrs . Christie and Manson's . The Egyptian and Greek antiquities , which wore very bountiful and curious , fetched largo prices .

      Lord Dalhousie . —The steam frigate Tribune , having on board Lord Dalhousie , left for England on the 20 th ult . in tow of the Furious paddlewheel frigate . Local Dues upon Shipping Committee . —This com » mittee continues to sit , and , during the past week , several witnesses have been examined , who all concurred in objecting to the oppressive influence of the Liverpool town dues on the trade of the adjacent townships . The American Questions . ¦— Several diplomaticpapers with reference to the questions at issue between England and the United States have been published during the past week . An analysis of them will be found in our leading columns .

      Memorial Church at CoNSTAjmNOPLK . —A publicmeeting was held at Willis ' s-rooms on Monday , to inaugurate a project for the erection and endowment of a > church at Constantinople , for divine worship after th » rites and usages of the Church of England , as an enduring monument to our countrymen who have fallen in the war with Russia . The Duke of Cambridge presided , and the resolution which he moved was seconded by Sir Edmund Lyons , and carried unanimously . The second resolution , which was moved by the Duke of Newcastle , and seconded by the Earl of Elgin , was also adopted without a dissentient . The meeting was likewise addressed by the Bishop of Oxford , Mr . Sidney Herbert , and Sir John Pakington . A sum of about 600 / . wa » subscribed during the proceedings , the Duke of Cambridge , the Duke of Portland , and Mr . A . F . W . Montague giving each 100 / .

      The Relics of an old Murder . —Some alterations were lately being made in an old house in Marketstreet , Lancaster , and the carpenter , in taking up the flooring on the ground story , struck against something immediately under the boards , which , on examination proved to be a portion of a skull . A broken knife , the blade of which was thickly coated with what appeared to be blood , and a cloth upon which there were evident blood stains , was also picked up , and over all there seemed to have been placed a layer of lime . The premises formed part of a public-house known , two hundred ) years ago , as the White Lion . The mode of getting rid of the body is quite an ante-type of the device resorted to by the Mannings .

      United Ragged School Meeting . —The annual meeting of the friends and patrons of the Huntsworthmews and Hill-street and the Lisson-grove Ragged Schools took place on Saturday evening at the Marylebone Institution , Edwards-street , Portman-square , the Earl of Shafteshury presiding . His Lordship made some remarks on the progress of these institutions ( which he desired to see more widely extended ) , and , alluding to the objection which some people had taken to the term . " Ragged Schools , " said he protested against any alteration of the name , " which literally defines the nature and object of ^ the institutions . " He added that , if they changed the name , he should request them to remove him from the Presidentship of the Union .

      Australia . —A public meeting at Melbourne , with a view to address the Queen , praying her to allow the colonists to elect their own Governor , has proved a complete failure . The leading Liberals stayed away , and the mayor Baid that , though , as a matter of duty , he had convened the meeting on receiving a requisition to that effect , he could not act as Chairman , as he did not approve of the objects proposed . Mr . Peter Lolor , who lost an arm on the side of the people in the riots of December , 1854 , moved an amendment to the first resolution , and the meeting broke up in some confusion , it not being apparent whether the original motion or

      theamendment were carried . Acting-Governor MacArthur has succeeded in forming an Administration at Melbourne , and is consolidating the new Government to the satisfaction of the greater part of the colonists . Some riots had taken place at the diggings , the diggers being desirous to obtain the Government reserves of land , on which to carry on their mining operations . Mr . Gavan Duffy , late of the Nation newspaper , had arrived and " been entertained at Melbourne ; the dinner ended in a riot . Mr . Duffy has disclaimed all intention of carrying , on agitation , professing to devote himself to his profession— the bar .

      The Convicts under Sentence of Death . —Tho sentence of death upon Celestina Soinmor , convicted at tho recent session of tho Central Criminal Court of tho murder of her illegitimate child at Islington , has been commuted to transportation for life . A similar commutation has also been mode in tho sentence of Elizabeth Ann Harris , who was convictod at tho same sessions of tho murder of her two illegitimate children at Uxbridgc . Fatal Boiler Explosion . —A boiler in tho colliory of Messrs . liowes and Co . at Kibblesworth , Durham , has recently exploded ( it is supposed , from want of water ) , and has killed two persons and injured several tho of

      others . The man who whs entrusted with care tho boilers , had duly examined them and found that they wore then all well supplied with water . Ho was standing very near ono of them about ton minutes afterwards ,. all being in full operation , when tho boiler burst witu tremendous violence , carrying away tho roof of tlie ongino-houeo , displacing tho adjoining boiler ^ doing considerable damage to tho machinery , «» d shattering tmv walls of tho surrounding buildings . Tho two men who wero killed by tho explosion wero engaged as firemen la tho colliory . An inquest has boon opened , and « ° > ourned for further evidence . Ono of tho workmen wo *

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 3, 1856, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03051856/page/10/